Silverview
Oct 20, 2021
3 minutes
By John le Carré
Viking £20
Julian Lawndsley, notionally the protagonist of John le Carré’s last novel, arrives in a Suffolk seaside town to put aside his past in the City and start a highbrow bookshop.
He is befriended, half against his will, by Edward, a charming Polish (immigrant is the wrong word for him) who is nursing a dying wife, a retired spy. Elsewhere, a senior spy, Stewart Proctor, is investigating
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